Guild Wars 2

I’m curios as to why world ranks are character bound not account bound, has Devon or another Anet dev ever given a reason for this?

I have 4 level 80 Characters that I like to switch up and play in WvW depending on how I feel but as some are rank 100 and others rank 15 it sucks because I’m at a disadvantage to others even though I’ve played WvW just as long.

Its all relative though. Play long enough, even casually and you’ll get things. Perhaps specialize each character based on its abilities? For instance, a Warrior would be awesome for Siege Might because he can be all tanky on the rams. Conversely, a Necromancer would make a nice Arrow Cart master because he can fear people off him in tough field fights or a Keep overrun situation. Guardian can be a good cannon master because he can bubble himself (and the cannon) and get more shots off, possibly at that Golem Rush coming in.

With it account bound you would obviously specialize since getting all skills on all your characters (lets say 6+) would take like 3000 ranks. So I fail to see the point of the argument above.

That said, it should still be character bound since its all about the titel. Wee I am a general on my 80 ascended engineer, now I am going to play my level 2 thief and oh look, I am still an awesome general! No. The ranks would be watered down to nothing.

i always wonder why wvw rank does not work like spvp rank system….

if is about title, u can get “ascendant” or “dungeon master” using one character and still wear it across all characters and claim im elite

all titles or achievements are account bound and all spvp benefits are account bound as well thus i continue to see no reason for wvw not being account bound

Warrior r114
Ele r59
Guardian r55
Necro r39
Mesmer r18
Thief r10

Yea, dont really care anymore about the Ranks, untill they make it Acc bound.
They made so much in this game Alt friendly and now they come with this BS
GG Anet

A bit off-topic but how can I view what rank people from my server are?

SkyShroud.2865:

i always wonder why wvw rank does not work like spvp rank system….

if is about title, u can get “ascendant” or “dungeon master” using one character and still wear it across all characters and claim im elite

all titles or achievements are account bound and all spvp benefits are account bound as well thus i continue to see no reason for wvw not being account bound

Its not the same type of titel. Dungeon master or whatever is optional and extra fluff that mean exactly nothing. WvW titel is always visible and is an indicator of how long an enemy has played that particular character in WvW.

True it doesnt match the account bound pvp rank… but I would argue that is wrong instead.

Dear ArenaNet… It is not to late to change it to account bound.. don’t worry… People will be happy and it will actually give people some desire to make alts (and actually play them) in WvW.

Just put together all the ranks (rank 1-5 counts as 1 rank), and make the ability points character bound.
You will still have the same point system but now will allow people to actually care for alts and ranks.

The account bound system works perfect in PvP – go simple! :-)

Dawdler.8521:

SkyShroud.2865:

i always wonder why wvw rank does not work like spvp rank system….

if is about title, u can get “ascendant” or “dungeon master” using one character and still wear it across all characters and claim im elite

all titles or achievements are account bound and all spvp benefits are account bound as well thus i continue to see no reason for wvw not being account bound

Its not the same type of titel. Dungeon master or whatever is optional and extra fluff that mean exactly nothing. WvW titel is always visible and is an indicator of how long an enemy has played that particular character in WvW.

True it doesnt match the account bound pvp rank… but I would argue that is wrong instead.

my wvw rank 0 can beat a rank 80+, does that make my rank 0 elite and that rank 80 as noob? rank doesnt really reflect much

spvper will understand this easily that rank does not reflect skills…
title has no meaning in term of skills but juz to show off, it makes no different to wvw ranks, ranks has no meaning except points

anet is making this less rewarding for people who hav many characters and people who use different characters will be emotionally depressed having to go through all wxp grinding to get the points back so they can use their favourite sieges and not being extremely helpful than they used to be in other characters

SkyShroud.2865:

Dawdler.8521:

SkyShroud.2865:

i always wonder why wvw rank does not work like spvp rank system….

if is about title, u can get “ascendant” or “dungeon master” using one character and still wear it across all characters and claim im elite

all titles or achievements are account bound and all spvp benefits are account bound as well thus i continue to see no reason for wvw not being account bound

Its not the same type of titel. Dungeon master or whatever is optional and extra fluff that mean exactly nothing. WvW titel is always visible and is an indicator of how long an enemy has played that particular character in WvW.

True it doesnt match the account bound pvp rank… but I would argue that is wrong instead.

my wvw rank 0 can beat a rank 80+, does that make my rank 0 elite and that rank 80 as noob? rank doesnt really reflect much

Except of course exactly what I said – how long the enemy has played that character in WvW.

If he’s still a chump that’s his fault and completely irrelevant to the titel.

Why is WXP character bound, and not account bound?

WvW needed a grind, simple as that. It was intended to be the WvW compliment of Ascended gear.

The examples given of PvE or sPvP titles that are account-wide are from a different period, before the Manifesto was broken. Everything post-Manifesto is designed with grind in mind.